01452nam a22001457a 4500008004100000020001500041050001300056100002100069245014000090260003800230300002900268505096200297700002501259700002201284120628t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0136942415  aHV11.P67  aPowers Gerald T.  aPractice focused research: Intergrating human service practice research. /cGerald T. Powers, Thomas M. Meenaghan and Beverly G. Toomey  aNew York:bPrentice -Hall,c1985.  axv,335 p.:bill.;c24cm.  aContents: Introduction: The Scientific process and promoting informed practice -- A Practice-research analog: Part one, the process of practice -- A Practice-research analog: Part two, the process of research -- Practice questions, accountability and research functions for practitioners in human service -- The Library and its resources -- Accessing special sources of available information -- Instrumentation and data collection methods -- Achieving precision in practice: collecting and ordering information -- The Visual presentation of data -- Describing and computing the associations of variables in practice -- Group designs: A Program evaluation exemplar -- Practitioner assessment: single case methods -- Making Inferences: Samples, probaility, and testing -- Testing the significance of difference in practice -- Preparing a report in the human service context -- Difficulties in operanalizing informed practice: The human elements -- Appendices.  aThomas M. Meenaghan   aBeverly G. Toomey